Psychology

Trauma can affect brain function years later

Trauma can affect brain function years later

Exposure to trauma may create enough changes in the brain to sensitize people to overreact to an innocuous facial gesture years later, even in people who don’t have a stress-related disorder, says…
Mirror neurons: How we reflect on behavior

Mirror neurons: How we reflect on behavior

In the mid-1990s, scientists at the University of Parma, in Italy, made a discovery so novel that it shifted the way psychologists discuss the brain. After researchers implanted electrodes into the…
Eat soup, lose weight

Eat soup, lose weight

Eating low-calorie soup before a meal can help cut back on how much food and calories you eat at the meal, a new Penn State study shows. Results show that when participants in the study ate a first…